Circle of J F Herring. Faugh-a-Ballagh, race horse in stable aside saddling cloth, oil on canvas, unsigned, titled, 31cm x 40.5cm. Faugh-a-Ballagh ran once as a two year old at Doncaster, finishing second in 1842. The first Irish horse to win the St. Leger Stakes, beat Corranna in a match race and won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes and the Cesarewitch, finishing second in the Cambridgeshire. He was sold to France where he sired the Oaks and French Oaks winner and sired Leamington, whose lines include Longfellow and Iroquois, the first American bred horse to win The Derby. Believed to have been purchased by the vendor's family at The Allington Hall Estate Sale.
Circle of J F Herring. Faugh-a-Ballagh, race horse in stable aside saddling cloth, oil on canvas, unsigned, titled, 31cm x 40.5cm. Faugh-a-Ballagh ran once as a two year old at Doncaster, finishing second in 1842. The first Irish horse to win the St. Leger Stakes, beat Corranna in a match race and won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes and the Cesarewitch, finishing second in the Cambridgeshire. He was sold to France where he sired the Oaks and French Oaks winner and sired Leamington, whose lines include Longfellow and Iroquois, the first American bred horse to win The Derby. Believed to have been purchased by the vendor's family at The Allington Hall Estate Sale.
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